Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Consumers and citizens : globalization and multicultural conflicts / / Néstor García Canclini ; translated and with an introduction by George Yúdice



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: García Canclini Néstor Visualizza persona
Titolo: Consumers and citizens : globalization and multicultural conflicts / / Néstor García Canclini ; translated and with an introduction by George Yúdice Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2001]
©2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 972.08/3
Soggetto topico: Popular culture - Mexico
Communication and traffic - Social aspects - Mexico
Technology - Social aspects - Mexico
Consumers - Mexico - Attitudes
Nationalism - Mexico
Soggetto geografico: Mexico Civilization 20th century
Mexico Relations
Altri autori: YúdiceGeorge  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-182) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Consumption is good for thinking -- Mexico : cultural globalization in a disintegrating city -- Urban cultural policies in Latin America -- Narrating the multicultural -- Identities as a multimedia spectacle -- Latin America and Europe as suburbs of Hollywood -- From the public to the private : the "americanization" of spectators -- Multicultural policies and integration via the market -- Negotiation of identity in popular classes? -- How civil society speaks today.
Sommario/riassunto: In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship. García Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and dissonant,
Titolo autorizzato: Consumers and citizens  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-8830-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784105603321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; v. 6.